The world’s largest methanol refinery, proposed in my town of Kalama, has got me working overtime trying to stop it. It will be Kalama’s No. 1 source of air pollution. For what? A few nonlocal jobs? We can build different, cleaner port industries to bring in better jobs. We have a right to breathe the air without getting sick and this refinery would take that away.
What’s worse is that our “climate-action governor” gave the green light for this refinery. Gov. Inslee needs to realize that fracked gas is not clean. This refinery would consume more gas than all gas-fired power plants in Washington combined.
The existing gas pipeline that could feed the refinery is at capacity. That means, not only will the methanol refinery itself contribute to climate change, it will also rationalize gas pipeline expansions which, in turn, will rationalize more usage and more climate-warming pollution.
Inslee should protect my health, my neighbors and the climate by opposing the world’s largest methanol refinery.
